{"id":1973,"date":"2023-10-02T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:08:50","slug":"week-9-ss1-first-term-government-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-9-ss1-first-term-government-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 &#8211; SS1 First Term Government Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WEEK NINE<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>TOPIC: POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CONTENT<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Political Socialization\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Agents of Political Socialization\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION<br \/>\n<\/strong>Political Socialization is a process whereby the citizens of a country are educated on the values, attitudes and beliefs of the political system. The political culture of the society is transmitted from one generation to another through political socialization.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The citizens of a country are politically aware and know the roles they should play. Through political socialization, the citizens display pride, patriotism, loyalty and above all nationalistic feelings to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Agents of Political Socialization<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>The Family: the home is the first place one receives political upbringing. Children learn by observation and tend to do whatever they learn.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The School: Through educational institutions, one can learn about national politics, history and practise how to play political roles.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The Peer Groups: a person is known by the group he keeps. Playmates and friends influence one&#8217;s political views.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Political Parties: they stimulate the political awareness and consciousness of the people. The members are educated through manifestoes and campaigns.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The Mass Media: this includes the newspapers, radio, televisions and magazines. They entertain and inform the masses, as people gain knowledge from what they read, listen and watch from the mass media.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\tReligious Groups: politics and religion go hand in hand. Religious groups teach and direct their members on the political course to follow.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Pressure groups: they are very strong agents of socialization. They offer their members leadership training and educate them on their political rights, duties and obligations.\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>EVALUATION QUESTION<\/strong>S<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>What do you understand by Political Socialization?\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>How does the mass media contribute towards political socialization?\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>GENERAL EVALUATION\/REVISION QUESTIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>Explain four agents of socialization\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Explain the importance of political socialization\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>READING ASSIGNMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Essential government by C.C. Dibie pages 17-18<br \/>\nComprehensive government by J.U. Anyaele pages 14-15<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>WEEKEND ASSINGMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>The process of acquiring knowledge about the political system is termed<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>(a) Political culture b) political socialization \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0c) political mobilization\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The following are agents of political socialization except _____<br \/>\n(a) mass protest  b)  peer  group c) political party<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>The agent of political socialization that is responsible for entertaining the masses is called (a) religious group (b) peer group (c) mass media\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>_____ is regarded as the primary agent of socialization (a) The Family (b) The Community (c) The School\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The most distinguishing characteristic of a state is (a) Government (b) Sovereignty\n<\/div>\n<p>(c) Territory<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>THEORY<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>Distinguish between  political culture and political socialization.\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>How can the school contribute towards political socialization?\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK NINE TOPIC: POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION CONTENT Political Socialization Agents of Political Socialization \u00a0POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION Political&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,175,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-first-term-ss1-government","category-first-term-ss1-physics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}